Classical and melanopsin photoreception in irradiance detection: Negative masking of locomotor activity by light

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1973-1979

  Thompson, Stewart ^a   Foster, Russell G ^b   Stone, Edwin M ^a   Sheffield, Val C ^a   Mrosovsky, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Light; Locomotor activity; Melanopsin; Mice; Photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C3H MOUSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; WHITE LIGHT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OPSIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION;

EID: 42049109302     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06168.x     Document Type: Article

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